The Works of John Newton, vol. 2

by Richard Cecil; John Newton (Evangelical Divine)

Publisher:

Hamilton, Adams & Co.

, 1824

Overview

Volume two of Newton’s Works includes six discourses, as Intended for the Pulpit and twenty of Newton's sermons preached in the Parish Church of Olney.

• Six Discourses
  1. On the Deceitfulness of the Heart
  2. On the Saviour and his Salvation
  3. On the Christian Name
  4. On All Things Being Given Us with Christ
  5. On Searching the Scriptures
• Twenty Sermons
  1. The Small Success of the Gospel Ministry Considered
  2. In What Sense the Mysteries of the Gospel Are Hid from Many
  3. The Characters of Those from Whom the Gospel Doctrines Are Hid
  4. The Nature of Spiritual Revelation, and Who Are Favoured with It
  5. The Sovereignty of Divine Grace Asserted and Illustrated
  6. Of the Person of Christ
  7. Of the Authority of Christ
  8. The Glory and Grace of God Revealed in Jesus Christ
  9. Labouring and Heavy Laden Sinners Described
  10. Of Coming to Christ
  11. The Present and Future Rest of Believers in Christ
  12. Of the Yoke of Christ
  13. The Service of Christ Easy and Pleasant to His People
  14. Believers Cautioned against Misconduct in their Profession
  15. The Extent and Sanction of the Third Commandment
  16. The Christian Life Compared to a Race
  17. No Access to God but by the Gospel of Christ
  18. Of a Living and a Dead Faith
  19. Guilt Removed, and Peace Restored
  20. Of the Assurance of Faith

Key Features

• Text from the 1820 Hamilton, Adams & Co. edition—which also underlies the 1985 Banner of Truth reprint
• All Scripture references linked to the Bibles in your library

Contents

Top Highlights

“Our sins are many, but his mercies are more: our sins are great, but his righteousness is greater: we are weak, but he is power. Most of our complaints are owing to unbelief, and the remainder of a legal spirit; and these evils are not removed in a day. Wait on the Lord, and he will enable you to see more and more of the power and grace of our High Priest. The more you know him, the better you will trust him: the more you trust him, the better you will love him; the more you love him, the better you will serve him. This is God’s way: you are not called to buy, but to beg; not to be strong in yourself, but in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.” (Pages 140–141)

“Last week we had a lion in town. I went to see him. He was wonderfully tame; as familiar with his keeper, as docile and obedient as a spaniel. Yet the man told me he had his surly fits, when they durst not touch him. No looking-glass could express my face more justly than this lion did my heart. I could trace every feature: as wild and fierce by nature; yea, much more so; but grace has in some measure tamed me. I know and love my Keeper, and sometimes watch his looks that I may learn his will. But, oh! I have my surly fits too; seasons when I relapse into the savage again, as though I had forgotten all.” (Page 236)

“You have one hard lesson to learn, that is, the evil of your own heart: you know something of it, but it is needful that you should know more; for the more we know of ourselves, the more we shall prize and love Jesus and his salvation.” (Page 140)

“As to daily occurrences, it is best to believe that a daily portion of comforts and crosses, each one the most suitable to our case, is adjusted and appointed by the hand which was once nailed to the cross for us; that where the path of duty and prudence leads, there is the best situation we could possibly be in at that juncture. We are not required to afflict ourselves immoderately for what is not in our power to prevent, nor should any thing that affords occasions for mortifying the spirit of self be accounted unnecessary.” (Page 178)

Praise for the Print Edition

In few writers are Christian doctrine, experience, and practice more happily balanced than in the author of these letters, and few write with more simplicity, piety, and force.

—Charles Spurgeon

Grace, like water, always flows downward, to the lowest place. I know no one who embodies this principle better than John Newton . . .

—Philip Yancey, author, Grace Notes

I keep John Newton on my selectest shelf of spiritual books . . .

—Alexander Whyte, Professor of New Testament, New College, 1909

He moved in the lowest and vilest circles and sank to the depths of vice, and yet there emerges from this stormy story a man who not only commands the affection of any humane soul, but who showed himself then and afterwards capable of the highest Christian graces.

—Erik Routley, pastor and hymn writer

Product Details

• Title: The Works of John Newton, vol. 2
• Author: John Newton
• Publisher: Hamilton, Adams & Co.
• Publication Date: 1820
• Pages: 600

About John Newton

John Newton was born on July 24, 1725, and attended a boarding school in Stratford in Essex, during his childhood years. In 1736, Newton joined the merchant marine, and in March 1744, he set out on the HMS Harwich. His attempted desertion from the royal navy in 1745 led to a severe punishment. Newton was stripped of his rank, and transferred to a slave trading ship in 1748. In 1748, Newton was nearly shipwrecked. The storm initiated a crisis of faith in Newton’s life, and marked the first point of Newton’s conversion. He continued in the slave trade, however, until 1754.

In 1755, Newton returned to England permanently, and began studying the Bible and learning the ancient languages. He became a lay preacher, and was eventually ordained in the Church of England in 1764. He served for many years at the church in Olney in Buckinghamshire, where he became a well-known and much-respected preacher. In 1779, Newton became the rector of St. Mary Woolnoth, and in the 1780s and 1790s, a prominent leader in the evangelical movement in England. He was also influential in the lives of William Wilberforce and other leaders of the abolitionist movement. Newton died in 1807.